Etymologies

Examples

Dusty planes turned to precipitous gorges, and I mentally resigned myself to certain death a dozen times a day—like the time we were suddenly driving off-road up a mountain at an impossibly steep angle, or the time we were navigating a shallow, pebble-strewn riverbed guarded by Taliban tanks on each side.

He gave up and remained silent as they continued down the road, the cottonwoods and pebble-strewn creek bed gone, the terrain one of twisting arroyos, brush-covered hills, and flat expanses of hardpan where trophy animals as diverse as bison, elk, gazelles, and eland grazed.

In Harlem, the Bronx, Gramercy Park, and along the water-fronts, in little parlors or on pebble-strewn, moon-flooded roofs, a thousand lovers were making this sound, crying little fragments of it into the air.